Apparently, the Famitsu issue from August 4th, 1995 contained some images of a japanese Panic Bomber TV Commercial, featuring random standup comedians. Found on this japanese site. Oh, I wish I could get my hands on all those old Famitsu issues.

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thanks for finding my blog!
here’s one another issue contains info about unreleased VB titles; Wangan SenSen Red City and Sora Tobu Henry.

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wow! thanks suzushu! i was looking for contact info on your blog but could not find any. how did you find here?

those are the first screens to ever appear for those two games. could you please make some high res scans and/or translate the text?

thanks!

note to myself: also get your hands on famitsu from august 25th, 1995. contains info abount virtual bomberman and virtual block.

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That “VB Red City” seems to be a 3D version of “Missile Command”…

[KR155E]

The Japanese Panic Bomber commercial has finally been found. Will be up soon.

The two images posted above are not from the actual commercial. It seems those are photos that were made during the commercial shooting.

• This reply was modified 14 years, 2 months ago by KR155E.

This thread is full of awesome and win.

Sometime soon, I would like to translate as much Japanese information on the unreleased Virtual Boy games as can be found, and one of the things that I wanted to do was translate the information on the flyers for Virtual Block, Virtual Bomberman, and Virtual Jockey. I did some internet searching for these titles and found a site that already has a lot of the information on the flyer for Virtual Bomberman translated into English, which might be of interest:

http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Bomberman/Virtual/info.htm

Awesome! All these years and there are still things left to discover. I wonder if there were any prototypes for Red City or Henry made? Maybe those are the ones “we’ll never know about”, haha.

jrronimo wrote:
Awesome! All these years and there are still things left to discover. I wonder if there were any prototypes for Red City or Henry made? Maybe those are the ones “we’ll never know about”, haha.

Here is a list of Virtual Boy games, for which I firmly believe that prototype carts exist with very playable versions of the games on them:

1. Dragon Hopper (I am confident that this game is 100% finished)

2. Mansion of Insmouse (North American Version): ASSEMbler at assemblergames.com has (or had) the prototype cart:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?2673-Virtual-boy-items-unreleased&highlight=insmouse

3. Polygo Block

4. Virtual Block

5. Virtual Bomberman

6. Virtual Jockey

7. Zero Racers

I do also now wonder about Wangan SenSen Red City and Sora Tobu Henry. I wish suzushu had provided higher resolution images of those pages. I can make out many of the Japanese characters for translation, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to determine all of them.

Perhaps if I can find and translate more reliable information from Japanese sources, I will become convinced that even more very playable prototype Virtual Boy games are out there somewhere.

I would also add Virtual Double Yakuman to the list, which had been in develoment for a long time.